Fondant Ruffles, Pleats & Drapes

Learn Marsha’s techniques to make sophisticated cakes with cascading drapes, delicate ruffles and precise pleats. Marsha treats fondant like fabric to create a wide range of fashion-inspired decorations for your cakes. Watch Marsha make a sea of folded, thinned and gathered ruffles. Explore classic pleating styles like box pleats and knife pleats. Form horizontal pleats that look like the gathers of a silk wedding dress. You’ll really feel like a cake designer when Marsha shows you how to fashion an exquisite five-layer ruffled flower and flawless swag drapes.

Lesson 3. Ruffles by Thinning

Lesson 4. Box Pleats

Use a former to create exquisite box pleats and arrange those pleats into elegant designs for your cake.

20:11

Lesson 5. Easy Knife Pleats

Make fabric-effect knife and folded pleats and then use a template to add movement and sophistication and learn to add pleats to the top of the cake, too.

14:28

Lesson 6. Horizontal & Draping Pleats

Horizontal and angled pleating are perfect when replicating wedding dresses or other fabric effects and Marsha tackles one last pleating option: gathered pleats.

17:21

Lesson 7. Drapes & Swags

Make opulent swags and drop drapes using a form you can easily make from dowels and a foam board and add extra extravagance with scalloped edges and textured fondant.

16:17

Lesson 8. Cascading Drapes

Marsha demonstrate how to make show-stopping cascading drapes that flow down two-tier cakes. Learn to finish your cake with a ribbon tail, ruffle flower or even a ribbon rose.

The instructor

Marsha Winbeckler, Instructor of Fondant Ruffles, Pleats & Drapes

Known for her techniques in cocoa painting and rolled buttercream, Marsha is a long-time cake-decorating teacher, demonstrator and competitor. Along with her husband, Roland, she owns CakeSuppliesPlus.com, an online retailer of cake-decorating supplies.

Ratings & reviews

Class rating

(49 reviews)

Very satisfied

by Carlita_Cake It on June 30, 2015

I'm glad I took this class. I've been contemplating it for a very long time because I thought all it was gonna teach is drapes and swags which were the first thing I learned when I chose cakes a passionate career...But something kept eating at me to just TRY IT because you can never get to a point in your life where you can't stop learning. With All that said, I've learned SO many different things that are not shown in the previews. I am very satisfied with this class!! I have her husband's ...

I'm glad I took this class. I've been contemplating it for a very long time because I thought all it was gonna teach is drapes and swags which were the first thing I learned when I chose cakes a passionate career...But something kept eating at me to just TRY IT because you can never get to a point in your life where you can't stop learning. With All that said, I've learned SO many different things that are not shown in the previews. I am very satisfied with this class!! I have her husband's class as well and enjoyed it also!

Great techniques!

by Zulfah Williams on June 16, 2015

Marsha opened up a whole new world of ideas and inspiration for me! I learned quite a few tips and tricks relating to things I THOUGHT I already knew ... just shows, one can always learn no matter how much you may already know (or think you know :))

Marsha opened up a whole new world of ideas and inspiration for me! I learned quite a few tips and tricks relating to things I THOUGHT I already knew ... just shows, one can always learn no matter how much you may already know (or think you know :))

Ruffles

by anne_de_s2208119 on May 3, 2015

Enjoying this class! Thank you Marsha

Enjoying this class! Thank you Marsha

Love It!!!!

by erikaloff on May 2, 2015

Wonderful Explanation Of Techniques!!!

by Barbara614 on April 19, 2015

Marsha does an excellent job of explaining how she does everything. Money well spent

Marsha does an excellent job of explaining how she does everything. Money well spent